Okay, correct me if I’m wrong: Superman is nearly invincible. Only Kryptonite can drain him of his powers.
So how did Doomsday so easily kill Superman?
Apparently he can be killed by kryptonite and savage beatings. And it wasn’t that easy, Supes was the only DC hero who held a candle to Doomsday.
If I remember correctly Doomsday had Kryptonite claws or knuckles or something. Something on him was kryptonite. And he threw a mean left hook.
Superman’s invulnerability fluctuates depending on the needs of the story.
Doomsday was engineered to be virtually indestructible. Check out the three-part Superman/Doomsday series.
All I have to go in with this is the “Death of Superman” collection, but in that it makes it seem that the battle was so tough and lasted so long that Superman couldn’t recharge from the sun. Doomsday wore him out and eventually killed him.
Supes has never been indestructable, just no one else before Doomsday had come close to being able to beat on him for so long and with so much power.
Doomsday took out the entire Justice League, and did so easily. The League wasn’t it’s strongest incarnation, mind you, but Doomsday did walk through Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Bloodwynd, Fire, Ice, Maxima, and Guy Gardner while barely breaking a sweat. Superman was the last man standing between Doomsday and the razing of Metropolis.
They went toe to toe, and both died at the end of the fight.
One thing that’s worth noting is that there were a couple heroes in the DC universe at the time whose powers could’ve allowed them to take out Doomsday easily.
Recall Damage, the kid who could make stuff blow up, and Gunfire (I think–the character who was introduced in the '93 Deathstroke annual), the kid who could focus an object’s kinetic energy and use it like a gun (or cause things to blow up if they had no focal point to fire from). Those two together, if they had not been able to kill Doomsday, probably could’ve at least done him some damage.
And what about all the magic users? Doomsday was of Kryptonian origin, and there’s no reason to believe that he would’ve been able to withstand magic any better than Superman. A disintegrate spell would’ve been enough to blow his head off.
Lastly, although the character didn’t exist at the time, what would happen in a Doomsday/Resurrection Man face off? Each character has the power to come back from death with the ability to avoid that particular death in the future. That would be a cool fight, doncha think?
Guy Gardner should have easily been able to ,if not defeat him, at least remove him from the planet. All he had to to was create a sphere of green energy with a frictionless interior and too large for Doomsday to push against the sides with and then just put Doomsday in orbit around the sun.
Of course this technique once used would be too powerful and ruin GL powers forever.
And why exactly Green Lanterns can’t visualize large, sharp things inside their enemies is beyond me…
Well, Guy wasn’t a Lantern at the time of Doomsday, and his will would have to be stronger than the death machine’s anyway, so I doubt he could do more than what he did.
Given Superman’s lifting capacity, couldn’t he just chuck Doomsday into the air, fly up and catch him, and repeat till they hit vacuum?
He tried to hold him in the air, Doomsday was stronger and kept breaking free. Doomsday had Supes outmatched in the strength dept., but Superman had the heat vision amd the cold breath to even it out a little.
Superman, GG, Bloodwynd, Fire and Booster Gold all let loose on Doomsday with their blast type powers, all at once, and Doomsday kept coming.
Hell, Doomsday took a point-blank blast from Darkseid and kept coming. He also had an arm cut off, and just held it onto the stump and it reattached by itself.
Now, Doomsday vs. the Hulk - THERE’S a great fight. The Hulk’s strength theoretically has no upper limit, yet Doomsday evolves to handle whatever physical punishment his body receives. Not to mention he was already beaten up once.
Now, I don’t generally read Superman comics, but I did read one where some villain blasted Doomsday once and vaporised him. Who the hell was that?
And in some Superboy comic, there were hundreds of Doomsdays kept on some planet. How many are there, and has Supes always been fighting the same one, or different ones?
And just how exactly does one become immune to being beaten to death?
Easy. Once you’re beaten to death it’s a given that it can’t happen to you again, right? 
Doomsday doesn’t become immune to being beaten to death. But he does adapt to the fighting style of whoever he was going up against. The second time that Superman and Doomsday squared it off, Doomsday was able to use ranged attacks, as a response to Superman’s powers.
There’s just the one. The villain in that SB story (Black Zero?) had access to alternate timelines (“Hypertime”, as it’s called), and collected his Doomsdays from different realities. In fact, that villain himself was an alternate Superboy from a reality where he was allowed to reach muturity and the other Supermen (including the resurrected real Superman) never showed up.
Stinkpalm
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If I remember correctly Doomsday had Kryptonite claws or knuckles or something. Something on him was kryptonite
-false just pure hard bone
Lizard
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He also had an arm cut off, and just held it onto the stump and it reattached by itself.
-also false doomsday had his arm tied behind his back, until the JL blew off his restraints with the joint blast attack. and booster
gold coined the term “doomsday” the grey beast in inmortal, they got rid of him by sending him to the end off time.
Well, except that Braniac went to the end of time and caight him (no, seriously :rolleyes: ), and possessed his body - after he got beaten that time, he got put into a teleporter loop (basically, he never materialized out of the teleporter), and eventually he was apparently involved in the recent “Worlds at War” storyline (which I have read almost nothing of, so I duuno the specifics).
As per the Hunter/Prey miniseries (the one where he ended up at the end of time) Doomsday’s basic power is that anytime you manage to kill him, he revives with adaptations to fight whatever killed him. Since he’s been around awhile, he’s become immune to a whole bunch of stuff. Physical force apparently works on him, eventually, but it takes a whole bunch of it to even hurt him.